Also stacktraces are very useful, and overflow/underflow exceptions too. So many modern and useful features were missing!

Having a try/catch block is much better than using Goto Err

Edit. Rest in peace mono-basic https://github.com/mono/mono-basic

Is the SF Bay Area still the place to be? It looks kinda cursed lately.

In Italy, Salvini does that too.

The Soros hysteria is simply the current ideological theater the bourgeoisie uses to maintain division and control.

People do not naturally “want” a microwave with a 5-level deep menu. This “want” is carefully engineered through decades of advertising, marketing, and cultural narrative that equates “new” with “better,” “connected” with “smart,” and “touchscreen” with “premium.” The desire is not organic; it is cultivated. Companies spend billions not just responding to demand, but actively creating it.

People often buy these products due to social pressure, the fear of being left behind, or the promise of convenience sold to them. The choice is rarely between a simple knob and a complex touchscreen; it’s increasingly between a complex touchscreen and nothing, as the former replaces the latter in the market. This is not consumer sovereignty; it’s a forced march.

The relationship between a massive multinational corporation and an individual consumer is not an equal negotiation. The corporation has vastly more information, resources, and power to shape the terms of the transaction. They design products for their benefit (planned obsolescence, data harvesting, proprietary lock-in), not for the user’s benefit (longevity, repairability, intuitive use).

I disagree. People have the right to be naive or distracted. States should put into prison people who create harmful products. Yes, advertising is harmful to your mind, this is why huge companies pay incredible amounts for it!

Such a view often stems from consuming media that perpetuates the simplistic propaganda of blaming China, Russia, or immigrants rather than examining the system’s inherent flaws.

This concept came from the Byzantine Empire, where the emperor was both the head of state and the defender of the Church. In Russia, this has transformed into the idea of a symphony of the power of the Orthodox Church and the Autocratic Tsar/Emperor.

One head looks to the West (Europe), the other to the East (Asia). This symbolized Russia’s role as a vast Eurasian empire, a bridge between two civilizations and a power with interests and responsibilities in both directions.

The U.S. lost Russia when they bombed Belgrade in 1999. They lost China when they bombed the Chinese embassy in Belgrade in the same year.

They lost India during the Afghan-Soviet War (1979-1989), when the U.S., through Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (I.S.I.), channeled financial and military aid to Afghan mujahideen fighters, including Islamist groups. This support empowered radical Islamist elements within Pakistan and Afghanistan, leading to the emergence of groups like the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

This sequence of events is not a malfunction of the Democratic Party; it is the system operating exactly as designed. The capitalist state, of which the Democratic Party is one of the two primary managerial factions, exists to protect the interests of the bourgeoisie and maintain the dictatorship of capital.

The cases of Mamadani and Fateh, who ran on platforms critical of the Israeli state and perhaps even mildly social-democratic in a local context, demonstrate the party establishment’s red lines. Figures like Schumer and Jeffries are not merely politicians with differing opinions; they are direct representatives of monopoly capital, particularly its imperialist and finance wings. Their refusal to endorse candidates who challenge the sacred cow of Zionism, a key ideological pillar of U.S. imperialism in the Middle East, is a class imperative. The same logic applies to the targeted removal of Bowman and Bush by AIPAC-funded campaigns. AIPAC functions not as a simple lobby, but as a political enforcement mechanism for the imperialist bourgeoisie within the electoral arena. It ensures that any deviation from unwavering support for a key imperialist ally is met with overwhelming financial and political force.

The slogan “vote blue no matter who” is a weapon of class oppression. It is a ideological tool used by the liberal bourgeoisie to demobilize the proletariat and channel genuine popular discontent back into the dead end of electoralism, ensuring that no matter which individual manages the state, the fundamental pillars of capitalism: private property, exploitation, and imperialism; remain untouched.

The party’s 26% approval rating is a sign of the masses’ growing, albeit often inchoate, recognition of this reality. Our task is not to mourn the betrayals of the Democratic Party, but to build the consciousness and independent political organization of the working class. Our answer is not to find a “better” capitalist manager, but to build the party capable of smashing the bourgeois state apparatus altogether and establishing the rule of the proletariat.

Every time I get surprised by the efficiency of Lisp! I guess they mean Common Lisp there, not Clojure or any modern dialect.

Average drunk human coding skils

Two software engineers, one from Texas, the other from the Netherlands

Once companies recognize the full extent of their technical debt, they will likely need to hire a substantial number of highly experienced software engineers to address the issues, many of which stem from over-reliance on copying and pasting outputs from large language models.